Gwen Nelson
Advisor On Complex Systems, Information Sciences And New Currency
Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGwen Nelson is a pragmatic software engineer and systems advisor with 15+ years building resilient distributed systems, virtual-world platforms, and cryptocurrency infrastructure. Based in Llandudno, Wales, she blends deep Linux/sysadmin skills with polyglot development (Python, C/C++, Erlang, Rust) and a track record of performance tuning large in-memory services and bespoke failover proxies. She co-founded Aspies for Freedom and has repeatedly taken hands-on roles from CTO to freelancer, shipping build systems, cross-platform release tooling, and hardened payment/exchange APIs under NDA. An advisor to the Lifeboat Foundation for her bitcoin expertise, Gwen is comfortable reverse-engineering, rapid prototyping and picking up new languages and paradigms—evidenced by ports from C to Rust and kernel tweaks to squeeze more from cloud VMs. Known for inventive, “bizarre” hacks in the open-source spirit, she pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with pragmatic, production-grade engineering.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computing with psychological studies, BSc, Computing with psychological studies at Open University
English
Github Skills (139)
minecraft10
steemit10
p2p-node9
z809
computercraft9
server9
unsupervised-learning9
notification8
linux8
robotics8
unsupervised-machine-learning8
extensible8
lua8
robot-controller8
assembler8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GwenNelson/leela
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
beastix/beastix
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 263 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
kerneloperating-systemlinuxbsdlinux-kernel
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